Sunday, 28 September 2014

Since the dawn of time, man has interacted with the environment. Observation without interaction is and always was a logical impossibility. Questions ensue; answers have not always been forthcoming, although they do emerge through incremental shifts and the occasional bout of sudden inspiration. Scientists and researchers look for answers every day. It is the very pervading core and deﬁnition of our vocation; much like that of a Philosopher. We pursue an almost primal need to understand the universe and thereby make people’s lives easier.

The politicalrelationshipbetween the United Statesand Russiain 2012washarmoniouscooperationin spacewas narrow,collegial andfriendly.If that were so, and more, Americanswould no doubtgive themselfmore time, until they startmakingspacecraft.

But times havechanged dramatically.Because of the crisisin Ukraine, the tonebetween the United Statesand Russiabecamerougher.Unfortunately,in the universe.Therefore,the announcementof the AmericanNASA,againwantsto flywith theirrockets,should be seenin a political context.

Sunday, 7 September 2014

Astrophysicists believe that about 80 percent of the substance of our universe is made up of mysterious “dark matter” that can’t be perceived by human senses or scientific instruments. “Dark matter has not yet been detected in a lab. We infer about it from astronomical observations,” said Mikhail Medvedev, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, who has just published breakthrough research on dark matter that merited the cover of Physical Review Letters, the world’s most prestigious journal of physics research. Medvedev proposes a novel model of dark matter, dubbed “flavor-mixed multicomponent dark matter.” “Dark matter is some unknown matter, most likely a new elementary particle or particles beyond the Standard Model,” Medvedev said. “It has never been observed directly, but it reveals itself via gravity it produces in the universe. There are numerous experiments around the world aimed at finding it directly.”

Friday, 5 September 2014

It's not that your eyes aren't working.
Your mind is actually blocking images all the time, and refusing to
process them. Whenever your eyes move, your brain doesn't process what
would normally be very dizzying blurry images coming from the retina. To
fill in the gaps of time, your brain creates an illusion for a fraction
of a second to keep us from noticing. This is called "Saccadic masking" and it keeps us from experiencing motion blur.

Your brain replaces the blurry images with static images of your next
object of focus. Whatever you look at after moving your eyes appears to
stay still for a long period of time, because it is actually the same
image stretched for a longer period of time to cover up the blur. This
is called the "stopped-clock illusion", when the first second on a clock after you turn to look at it appears to take longer than all the other seconds.